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2. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Wikipedia

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   United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

3. UN refugee agency says staff among those killed in Israeli ...

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   The UN's refugee agency says one of its staff members and one of her children were killed in an Israeli air strike in eastern Lebanon - one of well over a thousand such strikes over the past two days.

4. Refugee employment - Wikipedia

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   Refugee employment. Refugee employment refers to the employment of refugees. Gaining access to legal paid work can be a requirement for asylum status or citizenship in a host country and may be done with or without the assistance of non-governmental organizations. In some specific cases, refugees may also be given work by NGO's while en route ...

5. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representation ...

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   The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representation in Cyprus is an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) opened in August 1974 upon the request of the Government of Cyprus [1][2] and the Secretary-General of the United Nations. UNHCR Representation in Cyprus was designated as Coordinator of the United ...

6. Refugee - Wikipedia

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   In English, the term refugee derives from the root word refuge, from Old French refuge, meaning "hiding place". It refers to "shelter or protection from danger or distress", from Latin fugere, "to flee", and refugium, "a taking [of] refuge, place to flee back to". In Western history, the term was first applied to French Protestant Huguenots ...

7. International Organization for Migration - Wikipedia

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   The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations related organization working in the field of migration. The organization implements operational assistance programmes for migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrant workers. The International Organization for Migration is based in Geneva.